This shot was taken from Aoraki National Park, which is a Dark Sky Reserve. The low levels of light pollution allow for some extremely good quality astrophotography.
I normally shoot do composites with mixed focal lengths for better resolution of the sky details, but didn't have the times since I was doing another shoot for the hours prior to this. It's worth noting that the head torch "light" is entirely fabricated, but everything else was shot from my camera.
Gear used: Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 14-24 f2.8S, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Pro
Settings:
Sky: 6 frames x 4 rows, each shot at f2.8, ISO4000, 30 seconds. Stitched together in PTGui, then processed in PixInsight.
Foreground: 5 frames x 1 row, each shot at 16mm, ISO6400, f6.3 and 60s shutter speed. Stacked to reduce noise in Photoshop prior to merge in PTGui.
Final blend and adjustments done in Photoshop and Lightroom.
damn is this legit yours? never before have i seen a photo on reddit and immediately sent it to friend because i liked it so much. this might be my favourite ever landsape shot.
chaka160 on March 8th, 2023 at 11:14 UTC »
This shot was taken from Aoraki National Park, which is a Dark Sky Reserve. The low levels of light pollution allow for some extremely good quality astrophotography.
I normally shoot do composites with mixed focal lengths for better resolution of the sky details, but didn't have the times since I was doing another shoot for the hours prior to this. It's worth noting that the head torch "light" is entirely fabricated, but everything else was shot from my camera.
Gear used: Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 14-24 f2.8S, SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Pro
Settings:
Sky: 6 frames x 4 rows, each shot at f2.8, ISO4000, 30 seconds. Stitched together in PTGui, then processed in PixInsight.
Foreground: 5 frames x 1 row, each shot at 16mm, ISO6400, f6.3 and 60s shutter speed. Stacked to reduce noise in Photoshop prior to merge in PTGui.
Final blend and adjustments done in Photoshop and Lightroom.
404phil_not_found on March 8th, 2023 at 11:38 UTC »
damn is this legit yours? never before have i seen a photo on reddit and immediately sent it to friend because i liked it so much. this might be my favourite ever landsape shot.
hotlips03 on March 8th, 2023 at 12:24 UTC »
woww earth is amazing !!